Center for the Arts welcomes 3 new board members

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — The Center’s board of directors elected three new members during its annual meeting held on September 16.

Carrie Geraci, Heather Gray, and Lindsay Wilcox were all elected to the board last month. The new members will serve three-year terms. Outgoing board members Valerie Brown, Amanda Flosbach, and Amanda Moore were also recognized at the meeting.

Carrie Geraci

Geraci’s arts administration experience began in 2007 as the founding director of the Center of Wonder. In 2010 she launched Jackson Hole Public Art, Jackson’s only nonprofit dedicated to commissioning public art in Jackson Hole.

Since founding JH Public Art Geraci has overseen the installation of 10 permanent sculptures and dozens of temporary works and placemaking events ranging in budget from $500 – $250,000. JH Public Art has overseen over one million dollars of investment in public art in Jackson.

Geraci was recently elected to and served one term on the Americans For the Arts National Public Art Network Council where she developed public art policy with her national peers and participated in arts advocacy.

Prior to her non-profit work, Geraci was represented at the Tayloe Piggott Gallery from 1995 – 2011 and taught art at the Jackson Hole Community School in 2006.

Geraci has a BA in Visual Arts from Brown University where she also attended classes at the Rhode Island School of Design and studied abroad at the Cleveland Institute of Art, in Florence, Italy.

Heather Gray

Gray is a leading art lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in the field, presently working as a personal art lawyer, where she handles all legal matters relating to art collections, including purchases and sales, museum exhibition loans, commissions of artwork, charitable giving, tax matters and litigation.

Prior to her current position, Gray worked at Sotheby’s auction house in New York and Los Angeles, and private practice in New York where she advised top art collectors, artists and galleries on tax and estate planning for art.

Gray holds a BA from Stetson University, a JD cum laude from Stetson University College of Law and an LLM in Taxation from New York University School of Law. She also did post-graduate work in art history in London.

Lindsay Wilcox

Wilcox lives in Jackson with her family and four children. Professionally, Lindsay has worked for Goldman Sachs since 2004 as a private wealth advisor providing strategic financial advice to families and foundations.

Wilcox is a member of Goldman Sachs’ Advisors Council representing the top wealth advisors at the firm.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs Lindsay received an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College (’04) and a B.A. from Dartmouth College (’94). Lindsay is also on the board of the Jackson Hole Land Trust and is a member of Tuck’s MBA Council.